Barbara Pierce, was born on June 8, 1925, in New York City, to Pauline and Marvin Pierce. She had two brothers and one sister. Mr. Pierce was president of McCall Corporation, which published the magazines Redbook and McCall’s. Her family roots take her back to her fourth cousin, four times removed, who was Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States. When Miss Pierce was only 16 she met George Bush at a dance in Greenwich Connecticut. They soon became engaged. When he went off to war, he named his planes after her, the Barbara, Barbara II, and Barbara III. On January 6, 1945, they were married at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York. When the war ended, they had their first child in 1946. Over the next 13 years they would have 6 kids, while moving around many times, before finally settling down in Midland, Texas. While her husband built a business in the oil industry, Mrs. Bush raised her children. In 1953, they lost their daughter Robin to leukemia. It was during this traumatic time that her hair turned white prematurely. …show more content…
This is where Mr. Bush’s political career would begin as in 1963, he was elected Harris County Republican Party chairman. In 1964 he ran for U.S. Senator , but lost. It was two years later that her husband would be elected U.S. Representative in Congress. As the wife of a congressman, she was able to become involved in charities and groups that interested her. Mr. Bush would later lose another seat in Senate in 1970. It was then that President Nixon appointed her husband United States Ambassador to the United Nations and then Chairman of the Republican National Committee, much to his wife’s
Kathleen Orr, popularly known as Kathy Orr is a meteorologist for the Fox 29 Weather Authority team on WTXF in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born on October 19, 1965 and grew up in Westckave, Geddes, New York with her family. The information about her parents and her siblings are still unknown. As per bio obtained online, Kathy Orr is also an author. She has written a number of books like Seductive Deceiver, The drifter's revenge and many others. She graduated in Public Communications from S. I. Newhouse which is affiliated to Syracuse University.
Barbara Strozzi was one of the most talented figures of the seventeenth century. Strozzi was born in Venice in 1619 to Isabella Garzoni, servant to Giulio Strozzi. In 1628, Giulio Strozzi acknowledged Barbara as his natural daughter by referring to her in his will as his “figliuola elettiva”, meaning elective daughter and designating her as his heiress. (Spiller, Melanie. 2012)
Lana Lanetta was born and grew up in the quaint town of Ogre, Latvia. Coming from a blue-collar family, she marches to the beat of her own drum and has achieved the American dream and beyond. Don’t let her certification in gardening fool you, she is anything but a girly girl and She had no time to try to conform to anyone’s standards, early on she began to shape her own future, working her way up from a street janitor to becoming an adept artist. In her youth she was incredibly active, contributing to her amazing figure that she still maintains today, getting great aerobic workouts from soccer and gymnastics. Extracurricular activities aside, sewing has always been an enduring passion that has stayed near and dear to her heart. Despite her
One famous quote from Barbara Jordan is “If you’re going to play a game properly, you’d better know every rule .” Barbara Jordan was an amazing woman. She was the first African American Texas state senator. Jordan was also a debater, a public speaker, a lawyer, and a politician. Barbara Jordan was a woman who always wanted things to be better for African Americans and for all United States citizens. “When Barbara Jordan speaks,” said Congressman William L.Clay, “people hear a voice so powerful so, awesome...that it cannot be ignored and will not be silenced.”
An influential American printmaker and painter as she was known for impressionist style in the 1880s, which reflected her ideas of the modern women and created artwork that displayed the maternal embrace between women and children; Mary Cassatt was truly the renowned artist in the 19th century. Cassatt exhibited her work regularly in Pennsylvania where she was born and raised in 1844. However, she spent most of her life in France where she was discovered by her mentor Edgar Degas who was the very person that gave her the opportunity that soon made one of the only American female Impressionist in Paris. An exhibition of Japanese woodblock Cassatt attends in Paris inspired her as she took upon creating a piece called, “Maternal Caress” (1890-91), a print of mother captured in a tender moment where she caress her child in an experimental dry-point etching by the same artist who never bared a child her entire life. Cassatt began to specialize in the portrayal of children with mother and was considered to be one of the greatest interpreters in the late 1800s.
Throughout Reagan’s time as a politician his wife, Nancy Reagan, influenced his political actions in many ways. An example of this is the 1980 campaign when Ronald Reagan was running
"She held us together as a family and a country." - Ted Kennedy. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, the charming young wife of John Kennedy, had a huge impact on America. Everyone seemed to love her. She was admired worldwide.
She was never again officially remarried but spent the rest of her life with American artist Robert Brady after exchanging marriage vows in a church in Acapulco,
After moving to Rochester, NY in 1845, the Anthony family became very active in the anti-slavery movement.
Her husband died in 1882 and she never got remarried. After her husband died, her and her children moved back to Saint Louis. In 1885, her mother died. She
He was a summer intern at the law business she worked for, and she was assigned as a mentor to him. They eventually fell in love and married in October 1992. She is a very committed mother and considers her family her first priority.
helped support the struggling couple. They divorced in 1942. She lived in Carmel Valley, CA after and died February 8, 1983.
If one were to look back one hundred years in time, the world would look drastically different. In fact, the United States would be almost unrecognizable. Not only would clothing, transportation, and the price of milk look different, but men and women would not have equal rights, racial issues would be dangerously prominent in society, and an organization geared toward world peace would be nonexistent. One woman made a colossal effort during her lifetime to create change for the betterment of her country, and also, the world. Eleanor Roosevelt, often given the title of “First Lady of the World,” according to the article, “(Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt,” was the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Many people admire and remember Eleanor Roosevelt for her unfailing dedication to her husband’s presidency; however, few realize that she was unlike any first lady before her, in that, Eleanor was independently involved in her own political platforms and beliefs.
Taft was considered the prince of the great Roosevelt. When Taft received the offer, he himself did not care to much to be the president because politics made him, sick but his wife, Nellie had always dreamed of living in the White House and persuaded him into accepting the presidential nomination. Sadly her dreams were crushed shortly after her husband’s inauguration she had a stroke and never got to experience the life of first lady.
November 11, 1744 was the date I came into the world. Abigail Smith was my maiden name and I lived in Weymouth, Massachusetts. I didn’t get an education in my early years, but I was taught how to read and write at home. I read as much as I could including works by William Shakespeare and John Milton. In 1762, I met my future husband at a social gathering; I was 17 years old at the time. On October 25, 1764, I married John Adams at the age of 19. Later, I gave birth to six children- three daughters and three sons. Abigail Amelia Adams (Nabby) was the first child I gave birth to in 1765. John Quincy Adams (future 6th President of the United States) was the first son in the family; born in 1767. Next came Susanna in 1768, Charles in 1770, and